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Brazil's CO2 emissions fell by 17%, the second biggest annual reduction in history.

Tony Wood · Sell Your Children: The Latin American Right It’s​ striking how thoroughly Latin America’s contemporary right has absorbed neoliberalism. Earlier cohorts...

‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’

Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nice piece, Congrats.

How Social Media Shortens Your Life And How to Expand it

You spend more time on social media than you intend to, because time flows faster on these platforms, causing you to lose hours in what feels like minutes. This is no accident; it’s a result of a decades-long plot to steal your time.

My new essay.
www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social...

Lyndal Roper’s Summer of Fire and Blood has won the 2025 Cundill History Prize. Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper, an excellent new history of one of the largest popular uprisings before the French Revolution, won this year’s Cundill Hist…

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper has won this year’s Cundill History Prize.

@kelizaw.bsky.social

German academic freedom initiative funds first arrivals - Research Professional News Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports 74 researchers to move to Germany, from nations including US

A first group of international researchers (including US academics) has been selected to move to Germany with funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, under an initiative promising them academic freedom.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.

With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.

My latest:

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.

A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, a new study affirmed.

How to Build a Union Culture that Welcomes Immigrant Members Solidarity between workers is the lifeblood of a fighting labor movement. The workplace throws us together regardless of culture, race, gender, and language; we may have little in common but the need ...

“Federal agents are terrorizing immigrants and citizens, and racially profiling us Latinos for kidnapping and detention. If ever there was a time to stand up to a boss and declare that an injury to one is an injury to all, it’s now,” writes @lfelizleon.bsky.social

America How has the history of the United States been shaped by its relationship with Latin American nations? Pulitzer Prize–winning author Greg Grandin (Yale University) will discuss his new book, "America, ...

Excited to welcome Greg Grandin to UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy on 11/6 to discuss his book America, América: A New History of the New World.

@annegarlandmahler.bsky.social will be leading the conversation.

karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/america

Coffee, cocoa, and meat matters.

Lula is optimistic there will be a US-Brazil trade deal after meeting with Trump in Malaysia Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he's confident his country and the United States will reach a trade deal, saying U.S.

Brazil’s leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed confidence that his country and the United States will reach a trade deal, saying that U.S. President Donald Trump had practically “guaranteed” it during their talks the day before.

Milei’s party wins big in high-stakes Argentina polls, early results show La Libertad Avanza wins most votes nationally and in the Buenos Aires province, early results and media tallies show.

La Libertad Avanza wins most votes nationally and in the Buenos Aires province, early results and media tallies show.

Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the prehistoric ecosystem Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the prehistoric ecosystem

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Cover of Modern Peru: A New History edited by Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara. The design features a bold orange background with large text in white and yellow. In the center is a halftone-style image in burnt orange showing groups of people gathered along a road, with soldiers or police standing in the foreground and crowds in the background. A multicolored border in blue, green, and orange surrounds the image, giving the cover a layered, graphic look.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Modern Peru" edited by Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. #Peru #History
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The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!

Looking forward to presenting at HM this year!

Forrest Hylton | Capitalism for All Part of Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s success in the Bolivian presidential election lies with his choice of running mate,...

‘In Bolivia, the far-right presidential candidate, Jorge Quiroga, who pledged fealty to Trump, the IMF and the US Treasury, came second in the first round of voting in August, with 26.7 per cent, and advanced to the run-off.’

Forrest Hylton on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

The Booker Foundation is adding a children’s prize. The Booker Prize Foundation is adding to its roster of rarefied literary recognitions. A new prize will recognize excellent fiction written for young readers—specifically, children ages eight to 12…

A new prize will recognize excellent fiction written for readers between the ages of eight and 12.

3% annual inflation is wild.

London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting ‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars

Good stuff from @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Papa Leão 14 recebe MST em reunião com movimentos sociais no Vaticano Encontro abordará temas como o direito à terra, desafios de questões geopolíticas, além de guerras e crise imigratória. Leia no Poder360

Papa Leão XIV recebe MST em reunião com movimentos sociais no Vaticano jnascim.info/vu8zlx

The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...

Appreciate this framing from EPI:

"The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024"

Renata Keller and Dustin Walcher - A Cuban Story (Episode 1) In this episode, Dustin and Renata explain their goal for the audiodocumentary: to teach listeners about the Cuban context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with Lars Schoultz, Lillian Guerra, W

Dear friends: I am SO EXCITED to announce the release of the first episode of the SECOLAS audio documentary mini-series on the Cuban Missile Crisis that I co-produced with Dustin Walcher! (thread 1/7) #History 🗃️
soundcloud.com/historiaspod...

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Back in the late 1960s, Mondale proposed creating a national Council of Social Advisers, which would draw on social science to support a liberal reform agenda. This initiative's failure symbolized the collapsing faith in the possibility of well-informed progressive state muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...